Italo-Western is, in some classifications, the largest branch of the Romance languages. It in turn comprises two branches, Italo-Dalmatian and Western:
- Italo-Dalmatian includes Italian, central Italian languages, southern Italian languages, e.g., Neapolitan and Sicilian, Judeo-Italian, Corsican and the extinct Dalmatian.
- The Western branch includes 32 languages, including French, Spanish, and Portuguese. (Some classifications include central and southern Italian; the resulting clade is generally called Italo-Western Romance.)
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“The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.”
—Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1934)